Contemplating Edith Stein

Book Overview

Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person, community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268021899
• ISBN13: 9780268021894
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"